Alta Journal is honored to be among the finalists for the 15th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club. These awards recognize the best in arts and entertainment reporting in the past year. Alta has been nominated 28 times, in categories that range from profiles to criticism, page layout to illustration, digital content to cover art.
We’re so proud of our contributors and staff for this recognition and wish them luck as they go up against some of the best and most respected publications, writers, and artists working in media. Winners will be announced on December 4, 2022. (The full list of LAPC National A&E Journalism Award nominees can be found here.)
Our nominations are as follows:
Book Critic
John Freeman
David L. Ulin
Illustration
Steve Carroll, “When Mark Twain Canceled Bret Harte”
Joe Ciardiello, “The Last Poems of Jim Harrison”
Victor Juhasz, “Sleep Nights”
Matt Mahurin, “Falling”
John Mattos, “An Occurrence at Sierra Mojada”
Page Layout
John Goecke, Special Section: The New Hollywood
John Goecke, Special Section: Art
Cover Art
Pawel Nolbert, Fall 2021
Business, Film
Robert Ito, “Keeping Hollywood in Hollywood”
Business, Music/Theater/Performing Arts
Keenan Norris, “She Who Remembers”
Catherine Womack, “Opera in Service of Its Audience”
Obituary/In Appreciation, Music and Other Arts Personalities
Santi Elijah Holley, “Tupac in the Afterlife”
David L. Ulin, “Joan Didion’s Singular Voice”
Personality Profile, Other Arts—Under 2,500 Words
Catherine Womack, “Opera in Service of Its Audience”
Personality Profile, Film/TV—Over 2,500 Words
Sam Wasson, “The Man That Got Away”
Movie Industry Feature—Over 1,000 Words
Monica Corcoran Harel, “Acting Your Age”
Visual Arts/Architecture Feature—Over 1,000 Words
Jessica Zack, “In Search of an ‘American Geography’”
Creative/Performing Arts Feature—Over 1,000 Words
Abby M. Gibson, “Hamlin Garland’s Mad Quest for the ‘Buried Crosses’”
Arts Feature—Under 1,000 Words
Anita Felicelli, “Let’s Talk About Sex”
Commentary Analysis/Trend—on Film
Monica Corcoran Harel, “Fashion Gone Streamable”
Robert Ito, “Keeping Hollywood in Hollywood”
Commentary Analysis/Trend—on Other Arts
Sands Hall, “‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’”
Ajay Orona, “A Rat-Filled Casino”
Ishmael Reed, “A Tale of Two Theaters”
DIGITAL
Personality Profile, Performing & Other Arts
Anjali Khosla, “An Amreekan Tale”
Music Feature
Min Liao, “A Rock Star Boswell Becomes a Doc Star”
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